Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...

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A recent pneumonic plague death in Northern Arizona, the first since 2007, has raised concerns about this rare but deadly disease. Caused by Yersinia ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to plague.

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity and treatability with antibiotics.

A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.

A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...

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A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the U.S., most of them in ...

Pneumonic plague, left untreated, is almost always fatal. So diagnostics become really important. The challenge is that many physicians in the U.S. have never seen plague.